There are several approaches to the celebration of the Wesak Festival many of which have incorporated various themes to attract, educate and awaken humanity to the sacredness of this event.
Five Candles - Five DaysWe would like to offer the global community an opportunity to participate in an esoteric approach as outlined in the Ageless Wisdom and given by Master Djwhal Khul.
This approach begins by providing a clear outline of the event and the preparation necessary for becoming an instrument for the distribution of Force into the heart and minds of humanity. This preparation can be accomplished by the individual although a group approach allows a greater stream of this Force to benefit our troubled World.
Master Djwhal Khul
The two Full Moons of May and June present to you a new opportunity to participate in the release of the planetary Life from the thralldom of the Forces of Materialism. If you are to do your share in this work of salvage, it will necessitate certain attitudes and activities on your part which I would like briefly to touch upon, leaving you to take right and appropriate action and to follow, with all other disciples and aspirants, the indicated stages:
1. For the entire week prior to the May Full Moon and the June Full Moon endeavor to do the following things:
a. Link up with all disciples, aspirants and men and women of goodwill throughout the world and in all nations, using the creative imagination.
b. Eliminate out of your consciousness all negativity, seeing yourself clearly as ranged on the side of the Forces of Light; you are, therefore, not neutral in thought. See to it also that when taking right action in the conflict against the forces of materialism you preserve ever a spirit of love for all individuals who have been swept into the vortex of their potency.
c. When meditating and invoking the Forces of Light, endeavour to forget entirely all your own personal difficulties, tragedies, and problems. Disciples have to learn to carry forward their work for humanity in spite of personality stresses, strains, and limitations.
d. Prepare yourselves thus for the work of the two Full Moons, keeping your objective clearly in mind and submitting yourselves to an adequate temporary discipline.
2. For the two days prior to the Full Moon, on the day of the Full Moon itself, and for the two succeeding days (five days) endeavor at sunrise, at noon, at five o'clock P.M., and at sunset, plus the exact time of the Full Moon in your own land, to say the Great Invocation with the intent to invoke, precipitate and anchor in outer manifestation the waiting Potencies. Do this aloud when possible, and in group formation whenever feasible. It is the focused power of your unemotional thought which will bridge the present existing gap and link more closely the two worlds of spiritual activity and of human demonstration.
3. Repeat this activity for three days each and every month—the day prior to the Full Moon, the day of the Full Moon, and the succeeding day. As a preliminary exercise to these three days, you could take an earlier three days of preparation, and thus increase the effectiveness of your effort.
Many people the world over have for years been trained to recognize two things. First, the importance of the Wesak Festival at the time of the Full Moon of May, because it not only objectively links the major Eastern religion with the major Western faith, but because it esoterically provides the key to the open door between Shamballa and the Hierarchy, between the purpose of God (still unidentified by man, owing to his relatively low stage of evolution which makes it beyond human comprehension at present) and the method of God, which is love; it provides also the link between the Buddha, temporarily embodying will-wisdom, and the Christ, embodying love-wisdom, and also between humanity, focused in consciousness through the Christ, and the Hierarchy, focused in consciousness through the Buddha.